This essay was commissioned by curators Felix Vogel and Markus Miessen to be published alongside the exhibition, Scenarios about Europe: Scenario 3 at the Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig. The exhibition is one of a series being curated throughout Europe over the next two or three years, using a range of artistic and academic perspectives to reflect on the changing nature of European socio-cultural identity. The essay appears in the exhibition’s booklet, Eine Zukunft nach der Zukunft (A Future for the Future), translated into German by Felix. For those who (like me) have very little German, I have posted an English version here.